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I like this! To me this is the best experience a flight sim can offer, encouraging the player to bring home a damaged plane. 👍

Thus we motivate multiplayer players to try to reach a friendly airfield even if their aircraft is heavily damaged - even a hard landing there (as long as you don't break a wing at its base or fuselage) won't count your aircraft as lost and your enemy won't get the kill.

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I’m particularly happy to learn about the new kill logic. I’m not particularly concerned about the scoring itself, but it’s sooooo great, that the “aircraft destroyed” criteria will no longer include simply having the engine cut out. This may seem a small thing but to me it really signifies the way that this sim is slowly moving out of the long shadow of IL2-1946.

Very excited about the update, but: I didn’t see anything about the U-2? Is that still scheduled for the next update?

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I'm *really* happy about the new kill logic. A few weeks ago on WOL I limped a P-40 back across the entire map on WOL, the engine cut out on final but I landed and got off the runway..but I was "destroyed"...

Love the new scoring logic, it'll improve gameplay a lot and maybe help people to not be so easily distracted after they smoke someone

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Read between the lines. Obviously this means that the third party work didn't work out and the U-2 has been cancelled. What else could it possibly mean?

Umm... no you are wrong. The U-2 is progressing. Not easy to build planes for us, we require quality.

The team as you can see is doing great things. When I visit them in person on my quarterly trips I am always amazed at what they are cranking out and improving aside from what I ask them to work on as part of our official schedule. Always pleasant surprises on top of unexpected challenges.

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Apart from the 4 new aircraft and the rest of the goodies, this is what excites me the most:

in the coming update, you'll experience the higher fidelity damage modeling for AI controllable ground objects such as trucks and tanks.

As a dedicated antitank pilot the difference in the damage modelling between AI and player controlled tanks became quite noticeable. Love the turrets being blown off. As long as they are not blown high enough for me to crash into when I pull up victoriously above the defeated tank. 😎

I'm with you, that is exciting news -- - for such a small team they are doing some amazing work.

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They said a few weeks ago that they were finishing 5 planes at a time, including the U-2. It was stated that the 4 stars were the planes shown today, but that doesn't mean that only 4 planes will be released in 3.007. I believe the U-2 and the Fw 190D-9 will be released in 3.007, but they couldn't show them today because they just weren't ready yet.